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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 13th Sep 2007 09:23
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Hey, recently I found out my sound card drivers were corrupt, so I uninstalled them. After that, I downloaded the Vista drivers, only for it to say it didn't detect a supported product on my PC. Nice... I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS. It isn't detected in the control paned, it shows up as "Unknown Device", and if I try to install drivers through that it says it isn't compatible. Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm dying without music!

Thanks!!


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Lukas W
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Posted: 13th Sep 2007 14:15
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What version are you trying to install?

according to Creative, the latest version for SB Audigy 2ZS for Vista is v2.12.0002.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 13th Sep 2007 15:57
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Are you sure the drivers got corrupted, and the soundcard hasn't died? That would explain why your comp isn't recognising it now.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 13th Sep 2007 16:54 Edited at: 13th Sep 2007 16:59
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Check it hasn't become lose in the PCI slot. Try removing it, boot windows with no sound card, close windows and reseeting it back in the slot, then booting windows again to see if it detects it's pluggy play.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 13th Sep 2007 19:02
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You could check that your motherboard's bios hasn't switched over to use the internal sound.

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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 13th Sep 2007 21:02
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Well it was working just last night when I was playing WoW, but when I checked the volume icon when I stopped playing, there was a red X next to it, so I checked that and it said "Sound card drivers damaged and not working" (Or something like that), so I went to control panel to remove them, went on the creative site to download them (v2.12.0002), opened up the installer only for it to say nothings there. The sound card isn't lose, when I check drivers on the only Unknown Device in the CP, it comes up saying its a 'Creative GamePort', so its detecting it. I'm really confused why this isn't working, since it worked when I first installed it a few months ago


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 13th Sep 2007 21:27
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Didn't Microsoft murder the entire sound card system in an update for Vista or something?


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 14th Sep 2007 00:57
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Probably, hence it not detecting it as anything sound related.. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 14th Sep 2007 04:18
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Fixed! Its very strange, I went into the BIOS to re-enable the integrated audio, when I did that it automatically searched the internet for drivers and came back with my Audigy 2 ZS drivers, so everything is working the way it should..very odd...


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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 15th Sep 2007 17:04 Edited at: 15th Sep 2007 17:06
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Quote: "Fixed! Its very strange, I went into the BIOS to re-enable the integrated audio, when I did that it automatically searched the internet for drivers and came back with my Audigy 2 ZS drivers, so everything is working the way it should..very odd..."


You re-enabled the integrated audio, I would have suspected that you had to turn it off?

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